Meiqing Shi

biography

I was educated in China and received my DVM in South China Agricultural University. I went to Germany and got my PhD in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Giessen. During my PhD training, I worked on coccidiosis, a serious disease in chicken and cattle. I moved to Canada and received my postdoctoral training in the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, where I worked with Henry Tabel in the area of immunopathogenesis of African trypanosomes. Later I moved to the University of Calgary and worked with Chris Mody on fugal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, until I was recruited as Assistant Professor to the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland College Park.

Area of Interest

1)Host-pathogen interactions2)Molecular mechanisms involved in brain invasion by Cryptococcus neoformans and Trypanosomabrucei3)Immune responses to C. neoformans and T. brucei4)Roles of T cells and cytokines in immunopathogenesis of T. brucei- infection.